I’m of course no fan of Obama’s meddling in just about everything. But to say that the Church’s taking action is of no use to the many victims is, I think, wrong. If the Church so wanted to spare a dying perpetrator, then I suggest it could have looked further up its hierarchy to whomever turned the offendingly blind eye.
We do know:
...it took Archbishop Rembert Weakland—himself a notorious homosexual linked to abuse in his own priesthood (a fact ignored in the Times’ article)—until 1996 to ask the Holy See to act against the priest.